Quotes About Overcoming Evil

#1. The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Anthony Trollope

#2. Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Thornton T. Munger

#3. Do ACTS of MERCY in a BIG WAY.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#4. I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death ... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

Ansel Adams

#5. Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

Emile Coue

#6. Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea.

Conor Oberst

#7. There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

Jack Vance

#8. To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil with evil is evil.

Nazr Mohammed

#9. We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#10. The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Pope Francis

#11. Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

Pope Francis

#12. The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.

James E. Faust

#13. God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

John Piper

#14. When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil.

David Gemmell

#15. To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

William Penn

#16. The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness.

Shirley Maclaine

#17. Love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

Thomas Merton

#18. Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Martin Luther

#19. Belief in a story," Uriel said, "of good confronting evil, of light overcoming darkness, of love transcending hate." He tilted his head. "Isn't that where all faith begins?

Jim Butcher

#20. The central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?

Miroslav Volf

#21. I don't mind being called a liberal. I just don't really think it's true.

Howard Dean

#22. It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

Pope Francis

#23. When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?

Hilary Of Poitiers

#24. It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

William Empson

#25. Evil can be helped to fade away more quickly if we remain in obedience to the Law of Love - evil must be overcome with good.

Peace Pilgrim

#26. I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

Adam Rapp

#27. Climbing mountains is an act I happen to love, but it is only one form of adventure. There are thousands. In fact, there's one for every human with the passion to push personal boundaries.

Mark Jenkins

#28. Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.

Peace Pilgrim

#29. The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. Gary laughed. Yeah, but then people meet you and you're all skinny and adorable, and they're all like whaaaa?

T.J. Klune

#31. The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one another.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#32. My problems are as light as a feather because god carries them for me

Skylar Laine

#33. The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#34. Loads of weirdos send me things, like strange bits of leather. And then there was the guy who thought I was having his baby. Apparently, he's been writing to Princess Anne too, so I clearly belong to a good, erm, sub-section of society.

Konnie Huq

#35. So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Thomas A Kempis